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I'm amused? irritated? to report that random disdainful commentary about fictional characters that DON'T DESERVE SUCH SLANDER SAID ABOUT THEM is still enough for me to not add someone to my Dreamwidth reading list. (This is especially true if that commentary JUST HAPPENS to be a part of that person's defensive tactic in shipping. As in, Mai from ATLA is a toxic partner to Zuko and, ahem, coincidentally this person happens to prefer Zuko with Katara. Or Yennefer from The Witcher is an awful person who knew the price she was paying when the only way to move forward with any power was to sacrifice her fertility and she oughtn't to change her mind like people sometimes do and it's just happenstance that this person likes to ship Geralt with Jaskier.)

Anyway! Things I could be doing:

reading one of the three e-books I currently have checked out from the library
writing that Fusco fanfic
working in the garden
organizing craft supplies so that I can, y’know, actually DO crafty things
trying out some of the recipes I’ve been drooling over for the last few days

What I am actually doing:

re-reading this amazing fanfic about Loki and Heimdall (I DON'T EVEN LIKE LOKI but the fic is SO GOOD!) (it's an AU where Odin still takes abandoned infant Loki from Jotunheim to the royal home, but later gives Loki to Heimdall--an exploration of what fatherhood and heritage mean to the two main characters)
eating too much chocolate
mulling over writing something about sexism as a (failed) visual language in The Last Jedi and Thor: Ragnarok (essay links below)
trying to figure out how to find my “to read” list on AO3 (there’s a “Mark for later” button on each story... but where’s the list of stuff I marked for later?! ~~I’ll report back if I figure this out~~ GOT IT*)
whining about people hating on characters that I like

*Okay, to read things that you mark for later on AO3: go to your history, and then on the top right there's an option to just show what you, well, marked for later. Huzzah!

The two essays that got me thinking about sexism as a storytelling medium in TLJ and Ragnarok are:
Middle-Chapter Romance – How The Last Jedi Holds The Empire Strikes Back and Attack of the Clones Accountable
and
What Heroes Do: Queer-Coding, Slut-Shaming, and Heroism on a Trash Planet

Hah, I was right. As soon as I made my previous post, I thought of the ongoing disappointment that is the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The trilogy that I thought I was watching--a story with dual protagonists in Finn and Rey--was almost certainly not the story that LucasFilm intended to tell. Not even Abrams himself, if I'm guessing about it.

Yes, this has been discussed a lot, by better writers than me (and by me). Finn is probably not going to be written as Force-sensitive within the films themselves. Finn and Rey will probably not be the romantic endgame for the trilogy. Those elements were hinted at in VII, but I'm afraid that all of it--romance, Force-sensitivity, equal status as leads--was part of the bait-and-switch to make Rey the main lead.

I'm saying this--er, writing this--as a reminder to myself. I don't think Finn will be written as a co-lead again. I don't expect to see much of the potential that the story of a fleeing stormtrooper holds. I do still plan to see IX, assuming that Finn gets a reasonable story and a decent share of screen time, but my expectations are very low.

(The sequel trilogy is a prime example of why "color-blind" writing and casting is not necessarily a good idea. I'm not going to defend the prequels as Quality Writing, but as it is now, the sequels have an all-white human cast for the Force side of the story. At least the prequels had Mace Windu as a Jedi master.)

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